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"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
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Wole Soyinka
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
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"By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me."
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William Shakespeare
"By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me."
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"Fame is a constant effort."
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Jules Renard
"Fame is a constant effort."
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"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
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"All publicity is good, except an obituary notice."
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Brendan Behan
"All publicity is good, except an obituary notice."
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"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
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William Shakespeare
"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
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"All things must; man is the only creature that wills."
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Friedrich Schiller
"All things must; man is the only creature that wills."
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"The sea has neither meaning nor pity."
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Anton Chekhov
"The sea has neither meaning nor pity."
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"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."
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Alexandre Dumas
"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
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William Shakespeare
"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
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"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
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Tennessee Williams
"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
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"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."
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Wole Soyinka
"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."
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"I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done."
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Alexandre Dumas
"I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done."
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"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
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"You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess."
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Alexandre Dumas
"You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess."
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"Age is like love, it cannot be hid."
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Thomas Dekker
"Age is like love, it cannot be hid."
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"When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."
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Zora Neale Hurston
"When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."
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"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
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"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
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George Bernard Shaw
"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
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"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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George Bernard Shaw
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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"A first impulse was never a crime."
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Pierre Corneille
"A first impulse was never a crime."
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"Youth is wasted on the young."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Youth is wasted on the young."
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"If you count all your assets you always show a profit."
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Wilson Mizner
"If you count all your assets you always show a profit."
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"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right."
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Jules Renard
"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right."
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"Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool."
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William Shakespeare
"Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool."
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"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
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Christopher Marlowe
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
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"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
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George Bernard Shaw
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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Tom Stoppard
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"The law often allows what honor forbids."
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Bernard Joseph Saurin
"The law often allows what honor forbids."
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"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."
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William Shakespeare
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."
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"Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble."
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Vittorio Alfieri
"Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble."
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"At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.""It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly."
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Alexandre Dumas
"At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.""It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly."
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"I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word."
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Alexandre Dumas
"I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word."
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"Foul whisperings are abroad."
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William Shakespeare
"Foul whisperings are abroad."
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"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."
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Harold Pinter
"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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Brendan Behan
"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
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"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."
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Oscar Wilde
"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."
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"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."
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Friedrich Schiller
"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."
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"The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work."
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Anton Chekhov
"The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work."
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"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."
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Alexandre Dumas
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."
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"Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?"
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William Shakespeare
"Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?"
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"The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world."
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Thomas Shadwell
"The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world."
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"According as the man is, so must you humour him."
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Jean Racine
"According as the man is, so must you humour him."
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"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
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Wole Soyinka
"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
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"We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."
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William Shakespeare
"We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."
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"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
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Brendan Behan
"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
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"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
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Wole Soyinka
"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
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"When all candles be out, all cats be grey."
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John Heywood
"When all candles be out, all cats be grey."
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